Ultra (Magic)

Next time you hear a liberal history professor or author criticize Truman and the United States for dropping two atomic bombs on a Japan they claim to be teetering on the verge of surrender, consider this story at The Weekly Standard. Documents on the U.S. program of reading radio dispatches, known alternately as Ultra (British) or Magic (U.S.) show that the Japanese leadership was anything but ready to surrender on Allied terms. Read the whole article before it goes into the Standard's pay archives.